Catholics, Gays and Pederasts

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There has been much excitement in the last week or so about some high-up in dear old Mother Church claiming that gays had a tendency towards paedophilia (not to be confused with haemophilia, which incidentally does not mean being aroused by the sight of blood, or Philadelphia, whose founding ethos did not centre on brothers touching each other

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Maybe so. The way the Church reacts to these things seems anomalous to say the least. I would suggest that that might be either due to a close-knit sense of mutual defense and support that churchmen feel ('my brethren good or bad') or possibly paedophilic tendencies may be so endemic that it is a matter of pederasts supporting pederasts. I suspect more the former than the latter. Or possibly, as you say, it's just rotten in more fundamental ways.

I propose it as seriously as any hypothesis without direct evidence is proposed. The precise opposite has been proposed as well, with less grounding, I think, so why not. Clearly there is research to be done, and the scientific method may tell us conclusively one way or another, or it might find no correlation.

But the consequent proposal I made to recruit more gays into the church WAS a joke. Not only because they would never actively choose to do so anyway, but because we have already established that in civilised western society it is generally wrong to discriminate against or for an individual because of the discovered variable tendencies of some arbitrary social grouping he belongs to (whether those groupings be male/female, gay/straight, dark-skinned/fair-skinned).